Word: landing
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...Enter retail. It's certainly not rosy in retail-land: The Sharper Image, Lillian Vernon Crop and Bombay Company have all declared bankruptcy. Ann Taylor announced the phaseout of 117 of its 921 stores over the next three years and Liz Claiborne is shutting down 54 Sigrid Olson shops this year. Talbots streamlined 22 more stores in addition to the 78 it already had announced while also ending Talbots Mens and Talbots Kids. The International Council of Shopping Centers forecasts that store closings could reach 5,770 this year - the highest since...
...true alfresco dining, call chef Jim Denevan of Santa Cruz, Calif., whose company, Outstanding in the Field, reconnects diners to the origins of their food by serving elegant meals on the land of farmers and food artisans around the world...
...hearing of the plight faced by a very different subset of foreign-born students in the quest for a Harvard education.In an outdoor campus café within spitting distance of “the security fence”—the wall constructed to separate (sometimes disputed) Israeli land from the territory of the West Bank—a dean of East Jerusalem’s most prominent university told me that three Harvard students had visited the West Bank last summer on behalf of Harvard’s admissions office.The hope and angst juxtaposed on the wall?...
...implemented effectively, time is a factor. Implementing an agreement, this only the Dalai Lama can do. And the Dalai Lama is 73 years old now. The sooner you do it the better. The people inside feel a sense of urgency, they want him to return to the land he belongs to. They want a closure to this tragedy of history...
...false. Priddy believes Americans might be unfairly pinning the blame on oil-rich countries. "They want to find someone to blame and Gulf countries aren't popular to begin with," he says. But producers are contending with rising production costs, while extracting oil has become more difficult as land-based wells with plentiful reserves have been depleted in many places, leaving expensive, complicated deep-sea drilling as the best hope for tapping massive new reserves...